History Series / WhoWantsToBeaSuperhero

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Iron/Dark Enforcer is a pretty badass name for a superhero/villain but his secret identity has an equally badass name, Steele Chambers.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Lumeria, in the episodes leading up to her elimination, started behaving in her TalkingHeadInterviews and in the lair less like a superhero and more like a stereotypical reality show contestant, getting into arguments with Fat Momma and being the only contestant [[MagnificentBitch confirmed to have recommended themselves for elimination for purely cynical reasons]]. Ironically, despite the nature of the show, she was not eliminated for this behavior, but rather simply for being the only contestant to fail a challenge.

** Also Steele Chambers, the Iron/Dark Enforcer from the first season.

* ShoutOut: In the final battle against Dr. Dark, Hyperstrike does a [[Manga/DragonBall Kamehameha]] attack while shouting "HY-PER, HY-PERRR STRIIIKE!"

* ScarfOfAsskicking: Hyperstrike had one. It was absent from his new costume until he seemed to add his old scarf to his new costume between scenes. [[spoiler:[[ChekovsGun good thing too, because it wound up saving the day when he and the other heroes were trapped inside of a metal storage unit]]]].

* ScarfOfAsskicking: Hyperstrike had one. It was absent from his new costume until he seemed to add his old scarf to his new costume between episodes.

** Season 1 had [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Monkey Woman]]. In episode 2, the heroes had to cross a yard to the back door of a house with two attack dogs pulling them away. Three candidates rushed the door and made it in under thirty seconds. Five others try, but quickly cry uncle (literally - that was the safe word). Monkey Woman, however -- she fights the dogs back and forth across the lawn for ''nine minutes and forty-three seconds'' to finally, successfully make the door.

* PlayerPunch: Stan really lays on the guilt for the contestants in episode 1 of season 2 when all of them failed to notice the lost dog. "For all I know," he said, "that dog's still there!", which was followed by the sounds of a dog barking.

** Monkey Woman was eliminated because Stan Lee found out she'd lied to him about her profession, and she gave away her secret identity to a civilian right off the bat, as opposed to most of the other contestants who had to be cajoled into it.

* FanService: Most of the superheroines and their self-made costumes were at least reasonably titillating, and many were downright stripperific - Monkey Woman and Creature in season one are good examples, and Creature at least seemed to visibly appreciate Iron Enforcer and Major victory's costumes. Though perhaps the best example is an unnamed applicant who we see rejected in the first episode who "for distraction purposes" fights topless.

* DistractedByTheSexy: This bites Creature in the ass ''twice'', though it doesn't get her eliminated. The first time was when [[SdrawkcabName Rotiart recorded her openly flirting with every attractive male contestant (particularly [[WalkingShirtlessScene Iron Enforcer]]), which caused Stan Lee to question her motives for joining the competition, and the second was when an attractive male cafe worker easily manipulated her into exposing her secret identity (others were manipulated by their attractive servers, but she was the one most blatantly taken with hers).

* DistractedByTheSexy: This bites Creature in the ass ''twice'', though it doesn't get her eliminated. The first time was when [[SdrawkcabName Rotiart recorded her openly flirting with every attractive male contestant (particularly [[WalkingShirtlessScene Iron Enforcer]]), which caused Stan Lee to question her motives for joining the competition, and the second was when an attractive male cafe worker easily manipulated her into exposing her secret identity.

* FanService: Most of the superheroines and their self-made costumes were at least reasonably titillating, and many were downright stripperific - Monkey Woman and Creature in season one are good examples. Though perhaps the best example is an unnamed applicant who we see rejected in the first episode who "for distraction purposes" fights topless.

* NinetiesAntiHero: Iron Enforcer, which got him eliminated. As mentioned below, Stan is looking for something closer to TheParagon, which is why he feels Iron Enforcer, a character whose schtick is about killing his enemies, would make for a terrible superhero, but a great villain.

* FailOSuckyName: Having a hero name like ''Basura''? In Tagalog (and in Spanish), it means rubbish/trash. She knew what the word meant and chose it because her costume was actually made from things she found in the trash.

* GenreSavvy: Several nice cases. In Season 1, Lemuria passes the self-nomination challenge and smugly tells the cameraman later that "Stan will have to try a lot harder to outsmart me like that." In Season 2, Hygena is the only one to consider that Dr. Dark is lying when he implies that one of the heroes is a spy ([[spoiler:as indeed he was]]).

* {{Hypocrite}}: Stan the Man criticized Major Victory for his past (key word: past) as a stripper (As well as being a parody of superheroes). Stan apparently forgot that he himself is the creator of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripperella Stripperella]]. Or more conventionally, [[{{Hawkeye}} Clint Barton]], a former thief and [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Natasha Romanoff]], a former career assassin. To be fair though, this criticism was not his own, but an anonymous criticism submitted by one of the other heroes, he simply chose not to comment on it himself. And the second time MV's past as a stripper was brought up by Stan, it was to bring up an important point of never giving up part of your costume while on the job, like he did while helping little old ladies cross the street. He later criticized The Diffuser, a superhero with no such clothing-removing past, for doing the exact same thing.
** In the costume upgrade episode for season 1, Ty'Veculus was criticized by Stan for not being upfront about not being totally happy with his new look. In season 2, however, Hyper-Strike ''was'' very open about his dislike for Stan's upgrades, and was subsequently criticized for not being open to change.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The giant clone of Stan Lee, which is created by stealing electricity or something. As one IMDb poster put it, "Oh no, a giant old man is on the loose! Somebody head him off at the county buffet!"

* MostCommonSuperpower: The comic book versions of the superheroes tend to be more muscular (for males) or have bigger breasts (for females) than the real-life counterparts.

** QuoteMine / ManipulativeEditing: That said, the "Last time on..." segment for the subsequent episode made him sound WAY worse than he really was, by making it sound like he flat-out told Ms. Limelight that she was dumb, when in reality, that quote was taken from part of a sentence where he said he ''didn't'' think she was dumb, that he thought she was smarter than she was letting on, and that it was just ObfuscatingStupidity on her part.